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Fantastic Fungi

This is really exciting because it means that the brainhas a plasticity about it, is able...

This is really exciting because it means that the brain
has a plasticity about it, is able to heal,
is able to grow

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This is really exciting
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because it means that the brain has a plasticity about it,
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is able to heal, is able to grow.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
51
Timestamp in Movie
00:45:05
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Artemis Rising,Diamond Docs,Moving Art

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Movie Summary

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
It just needs the right compounds - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
It just needs the right compounds
What compounds can we take - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
What compounds can we take
I know many, many people - Fantastic Fungi 00:15
I know many, many people
We are on a never-ending search for partners, - Fantastic Fungi 00:16
We are on a never-ending search for partners,
We have flourished side by side with your species - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
We have flourished side by side with your species
Many shamanic cultures - Fantastic Fungi 00:08
Many shamanic cultures
This is pre-religion all over the world. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
This is pre-religion all over the world.
It was all about the individual's connection - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
It was all about the individual's connection
This may be the largest collection - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
This may be the largest collection
The Mayan culture was very mycophillic - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
The Mayan culture was very mycophillic
Also to be able to predict incoming armies, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
Also to be able to predict incoming armies,
A great ethnomycologist by the name of R. Gordon Wasson - Fantastic Fungi 00:10
A great ethnomycologist by the name of R. Gordon Wasson
The English had a fear of mushrooms - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
The English had a fear of mushrooms
You know, these mushrooms can get you high, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
You know, these mushrooms can get you high,
And so that which is so powerful is naturally feared. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
And so that which is so powerful is naturally feared.
Wasson was an amateur mycologist, - Fantastic Fungi 00:15
Wasson was an amateur mycologist,
He took these mushrooms - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
He took these mushrooms
And when R. Gordon Wasson came out with this research - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
And when R. Gordon Wasson came out with this research
That was basically a field guide to psilocybin mushrooms - Fantastic Fungi 00:11
That was basically a field guide to psilocybin mushrooms
This then was quickly noticed by academics at Harvard - Fantastic Fungi 00:15
This then was quickly noticed by academics at Harvard